Nancy and I started our day by going to San Marco Square and San Marco Basilica while the guys went grocery shopping.
I think we got the better end of that deal. We listened to Rick Steve’s tour as we walked though. The mosaics are truly spectacular. Unfortunately you can’t take pictures inside but here’s one I downloaded from the internet.
We went out onto the balancing overlooking the square. Again spectacular. Here are pictures.
Then we walked back to the apartment past the bridge of sighs which is an enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge’s Palace.
In the afternoon we decided take the vaporetti down the grand canal. We walked across the island to the train station which was the start of the Rick Steve’s audio tour. We stopped in a square for lunch, ordered our lunch and then waited 45 minutes and still no lunch so we left. We ended up getting a sandwich at the train station. Listening to Rick Steve’s audio I can visualize the grandeur of the grand canal at its peak. It must have been amazing.
After our trip down the grand canal we went back to the apartment. We packed up since we leave tomorrow and had some dinner. In the evening we planned to take a vaporetti back down the grand canal because we heard that the palaces were lite up and it was amazing. At my direction we ended up on the wrong line and instead went around the end of the island and only part way down the grand canal. Frankly it was disappointing because not much was lite up. Fewer and fewer people live in Venice because it is just so expensive. It think it was obvious based on the number of dark palaces. Here are a few pictures.
We got off at the bridge Rialto and walked back to the apartment.
